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The wheels are falling off the Cameron-Osborne machine | LabourList

This is how David Cameron wants you to react to the shocks that are capsizing his government. It’s the only way he’ll weather the storm.

This is by Jon Ashworth, Labour’s shadow minister without portfolio.

Only one part seems incongruous to This Writer – where he states that Cameron and Osborne are “beginning” to fail the test of competence?

“Beginning”? They were never competent.

Perhaps it was the cumulative pressure of weeks of bad headlines for the Prime Minister and his party that led to the spectacularly botched press operation since news of the Panama Papers contents emerged.

First they went on the defensive saying the Prime Minister’s tax affairs were a private matter. Then as pressure mounted, Cameron made a partial statement saying neither he nor his family benefit from offshore trusts. When many questions remained about whether they had benefited in the past or would benefit in the future they gave another statement saying they would not benefit ‘in the future’, but gave nothing away about benefiting in the past.

These rocky last few weeks, and the Panama panic of the last few days, seem to be clear signs that the wheels are starting to fall off the Cameron and Osborne machine.

It’s a question of competence, and the Cameron-Osborne duo are beginning to fail that test.

40,000 British jobs at and related to the Tata plants are at stake at the moment, yet at the highest point of crisis the Business Secretary was nowhere to be seen and was found to have played no part in last week’s delegation to India attempting to find a solution.

Just hours after Tata announced it was going to sell its British business last Tuesday night Government Minister Anna Soubry told us that ‘all options’ were being considered, only to be superseded the next day by the Prime Minister saying ‘I won’t believe nationalisation is the right answer’, who was then again contradicted by Sajid Javid who told us on Sunday that ‘nothing has been ruled out’.

This chaos is just not good enough. It’s the same heavy handed confusion that led us to the fourth Junior Doctors strike yesterday, with an all-out strike planned for a few weeks’ time and the same again that has led to outcry from teachers, parents, Tory MPs and Tory Councils and others over the forced academisation of high-performing, well-run schools.

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5 thoughts on “The wheels are falling off the Cameron-Osborne machine | LabourList”

Tories like to perpetuate the myth that they are super efficient, but it is just a myth and as they have demonstrated the reality is very different. These are people whose primary concern is the self-serving of their own interests. They are both dishonest and corrupt. Incidentally, as Cameron promised some years ago to reveal publicly his personal tax affairs, he cannot now suddenly claim that the information is private.

That’s how the tories view us and for once, they’re correct, we’ve been too much like sheep in this country, it’s the reason why we and it is in the state it’s in!
Wheels falling off, about time too, it has been long overdue!

‘a question of competence, and the Cameron-Osborne duo are beginning to fail that test.’ Yes, a poorly worded statement. I’m not sure whether he mains as a P.R. duo they’re beginning to fail, or in their job as chancellor or prime minister.
As one-half of the duo is retiring it’s important to show Osborne’s duplicity with that of Cameron. So the piece has much to its credit.
Boris, may not be any better than Osborne, but he’s another club Eaton elitist who’s upbringing is so rarefied from that it makes them morally and intellectually incapable of running the country for the other 95% who are not born into such wealth and privilege. .

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